Kate Phillips (Peaky Blinders) returns as Miss Eliza Scarlet, Victorian London’s first ever female detective, for a fifth season of investigations beginning Sunday, January 12 as part of the Masterpiece series on PBS. Retitled as Miss Scarlet as Stuart Martin (Jamestown), who played Scotland Yard detective William “The Duke” Wellington in the previous four seasons, will […]
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Leave it to the great folks at PBS Masterpiece to start the long-awaited countdown to the series 5 premiere of All Creatures Great and Small with such brilliance. Here, courtesy of our friends at PBS Masterpiece, Nicholas Ralph puts costar Callum Woodhouse to the ultimate test with a pop quiz about what happened in Season […]
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In a bit of a nod to validate the mindset that there are no new ideas, the brilliant Inspector Lynley Mysteries is getting a reboot courtesy of BritBox. The original series, which premiered in 2001, was close to perfection featuring the aristocratic (as in the 8th Earl of Asherton) Inspector Thomas Lynley (Nathanial Parker) and […]
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With the 2024 Call the Midwife Holiday Special just around the corner, word has begun to leak out as to what long-time fans can expect from the brilliant series. While it appears there will be more ‘dramatic’ scenes than the usual CTM holiday special, the first-ever 2-part episode promises to protect its usual dose of […]
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John Cleese (Basil Fawlty) and Michael Gwynn (Lord Melbury). Photo: BBC Stay with me here….as I was watching Village of the Damned recently on Turner Classic Movies, I noticed a very familiar face from ‘the village’. Not immediately able to put a name with a face, I did a quick search and saw what was […]
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The legend of Monty Python’s Flying Circus had its American beginning on KERA/Dallas as part of one seemingly uneventful Sunday evening 50 years ago.
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Graham Chapman, one of the original founding members of the comedy troupe, Monty Python, passed away 35 years ago, Friday on October 4, 1989 at age 48. Thankfully, the comedy world was all the greater as Chapman ultimately turned down a career as a doctor to be a comedian.
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Dame Maggie Smith has passed away at the young age of 89. While The Dowager Countess did not know what a weekend was, there will be no weekend without her tomorrow. There are no words. RIP Dame Maggie Smith.
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Lucy Worsley Holmes vs Doyle. Photo: BBC Studios/PBS Unfortunately, it’s not a new series of Sherlock with Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman but, for my money, it’s the next best thing as the brilliant Lucy Worsley will tackle the relationship between Sherlock Holmes and his literary creator, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in an upcoming 3-part documentary […]
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Photo courtesy: PBS Masterpiece and Playground Based on the novels by Georges Simenon, the first contemporary television adaptation of Georges Simenon’s beloved novels about the streetwise Parisian Chief Inspector (Police Judiciaire detective Commissaire) Jules Maigret has gone into production in Budapest which, once again, doubles for post-WWII France. According to Masterpiece and Playground, the Golden Globe […]
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